West Virginia offers free online ˜mini-medical school'
October 1, 2003
West Virginia residents can interact with medical professionals during upcoming online sessions of the Charleston Area Medical Center's Mini-Medical School, the Associated Press reports. Each of the free sessions covers a different health topic and includes a question and answer segment in which participants can e-mail anonymous health questions to doctors and pharmacists. œIt provides the community with health information from the experts when they're not sitting in the doctor's office fearful or wondering what's going to happen to them medically,� said Beverly Withrow, an education specialist at CAMC's Health Information Center. œThis provides a different venue for them " a relaxed venue and a learning venue.� The anonymous setting also lets people discuss sensitive health issues, said Adam Renfrow, a spokesman for Sonic Foundry, the company that is providing the audio and video technology for the sessions. CAMC began presenting the live online Mini-Medical School sessions in April, Withrow said. On Thursday, the medical center will present œIntestinal Diseases 101,� which will focus on detection, diagnosis, management and treatment of intestinal diseases. Another session, œThyroid Disease 101,� will be held in November (Saxton, Associated Press, 9/30). Mini-Medical School Online
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